Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases

Introduction to the Human Enteroviruses and Parechoviruses

Members of the genera Enterovirus and Parechovirus are picornaviruses. Picornaviridae is a large family of morphologically identical, single-stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses that share similar genomic and structural organizations. Originally the human enteroviruses were divided into five species on the basis…